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interestedseal

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This is not the only blood cancer cure discovered in China. Thanks to the ATRA-ATO treatment APL went from the most lethal type of leukemia (death within a week) to completely curable.
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Yup, China currently has more foundational advantages in biotech than it does in AI - a larger population, less institutional regulations & red tape, and far less excessive medical expenses from artificial labor shortages (e.g. the doctors deficit). The only thing it historically lacked is capital, but that's been changing as Big Medicine is realizing that it's much more efficient to invest in Chinese companies.

By contrast, AI is held back by the lack of a truly globally successful software ecosystem (the rest of the world runs on Nvidia, Cuda, Google, etc.) and the chips embargo. No such problems in medicine where regulatory frameworks tend to be local and prohibitively expensive prices make it harder for Western companies to achieve economies of scale. China has huge chances here to be globally dominant, IMO.
 

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The Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China plans to establish around 100 new key laboratories covering eight major research areas over the next ten years to enhance the country's environmental science and technology level.

The new labs will focus on improving air and water quality, resource utilization of solid waste and soil management, ecological protection and restoration supervision, environmental health and risk prevention, nuclear safety, synergistic reduction of pollution and carbon emissions, comprehensive ecological environment decision-making, and common foundational research, the MEE announced recently. The ministry encourages the participation of social capital in building the labs, it said.
The scientific and technological support platform system mainly includes ministry-level key labs and engineering centers, with the former as its core, the MEE told Yicai.

The MEE has set up 40 key labs covering water, air, soil, ecology, nuclear safety, and environmental management as of the end of last year. In addition, 16 more are under construction, focusing on the Yangtze River basin and the health exposure assessment of new pollutants.

Regarding aligning with the technological needs for environmental management and governance, the new plan also highlights insufficient foresight in the strategic layout of key labs in priority areas, including scientific frontiers and disruptive technologies.
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